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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

About
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.
Contact
- Address
- Trust Headquarters
- Warneford Hospital
- Warneford Lane
- Headington
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX3 7JX
- Contact Number
- 01865 901000
Team Administrator - Reasonable Adjustment Service - Oxford
Closed for applications on: 21-May-2024 12:32
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 21-May-2024 12:32
Key details
Location
- Site
- Slade House
- Address
- Slade House , Horspath driftway, Headington, Oxford. OX3 7JH
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 7JH
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: part time
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (can be flexible, can be more than 18.75, open to discussion)
Salary
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Specialised Services
- Interview date
- 29/05/2024
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you.
Job overview
We welcome you to apply for an exciting job in the Reasonable Adjustment Service. We work across Oxfordshire working with clinicians in Oxford Health Mental Health Services and Oxfordshire County Council to support the access for autistic adults into these services and pathways.
We are leading the development of resources and delivering training to support clinicians to understand autism through the lens of difference, not impairment, and to empower clinicians with the knowledge and skills to reasonably adjust their approach in line with the Equality Act (2010). If you have an interest in advocating for autistic and neurodivergent people, and being involved in coproduction to shape how services work and support autistic people, the Reasonable Adjustment Service is the place for you.
It is an exciting time to join the Reasonable Adjustment Service. We are looking for someone who embodies our values and is able to work flexibly, under their own initiative and as part of a wider team. Collaborative working is essential to this role as are excellent communication skills.
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This is a role where you will be highly valued and an integral part of the team, with opportunity to use your skills and gain training opportunities to ensure the team is organised, well run and provide the highest level of service. You can use your own experience and skills to define processes within the team and work closely with the team to provide the highest standards of practice.
There will be opportunity supporting with creative elements i.e. developing resources, writing newsletters, formatting data collection and supporting analysis, inputting into training development.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Be responsible for providing a proactive, and comprehensive administrative service to a liaison team, enabling the service to operate effectively and efficiently.
- Work as part of the team in developing processes and systems to better meet the needs of the service
- Develop a thorough understanding of the service and processes used.
- Ensure clinical documentation is completed according to trust policies and this will include management of patient information referrals, updating team’s caseloads, updating databases / spreadsheets, accurately sending out meeting invites, comprehensive use of RIO and Office 365 as well as Microsoft Teams.
- Prepare weekly team meeting minutes and ensure accurate minute taking of these.
- Communicate clinical and personal information confidentially and in an appropriate format. Follow Trust and departmental policies and guidelines
- Complete data entry for service specific outcome measures
For more information, please refer to JD/PS.
Please inform the team if you require any reasonable adjustments as part of the interview and selection processes.
- All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
- Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
- We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
- Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
- We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
- We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
- Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing
Applicant requirements
Person specification
relevant experience and qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level II in business administration or equivalent experience
- Experience working in an office environment
- Experience using Excel and Word
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in healthcare settings
Organisational skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to manage large amounts of data
- Ability to manage multiple demands effectively
- Experience using Outlook
Desirable criteria
- Experience in administrative settings
- Experience managing projects
- Experience managing others diaries
Understanding of Neurodivergence
Essential criteria
- Basic understanding of Neurodivergence
- Willingness to learn more about Neurodivergence
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of working with neurodivergent people
- Additional training about neurodivergence
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bernie Ennis
- Job title
- Team Manager Reasonable Adjustments Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920 750128
- Additional information
Working days Tuesday to Friday
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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